COUNTDOWN UNTIL THE END OF CIVILIZATION

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

And JESUS' return!

Friends, it won't be long now! Post the articles you find that point to JESUS' return within the next 20-50 years!

PRAISE!

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

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Rising tide of sewage threatening seas, oceans: UN
Dharam Shourie
Thursday, October 05, 2006 09:16 IST





NEW YORK: A rising tide of sewage is threatening to overwhelm world seas and oceans, endangering human health, wildlife and livelihood of million ranging from fishermen to those employed in tourism industry, the United Nations has warned.
Recognising that good progress has been made in curbing oil and chemical pollution, the world body says much greater effort is needed to meet the threat being posed by sewage.
An estimated 80 per cent of marine pollution originates from the land and this could rise significantly by 2050 if, as expected, the coastal populations double in just about 40 years, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner said, stressing the need for immediate steps and accelerated effort to combat the threat.
"We have a long way to go politically, technically and financially if we are to hand over healthy and productive seas and oceans to the next generation," he said, pointing out that $56 billion are needed annually just to address the waste water problem.
A just released UN Study says that about 90 per cent of the sewage entering coastal zone in many development is raw and untreated, a situation that is unacceptable.
Beyond the direct health and economic impact on health and livelihoods, the report underscores rising concern over the increasing destruction of essential and economically important coastal ecosystems like mangrove forests, coral reefs and sea-grass beds.
The study notes that levels of oily wastes discharged from industry and cities has been cut globally by close to 90 per cent since the mid 1980s, and other successes are being scored in curbing marine contamination from toxic persistent organic pollutants like DDT and discharges of radioactive wastes, though there are still areas of concern in the Caspian and western Mediterranean seas and the Arctic and South Pacific oceans.
The report says overall good progress is being made on three of nine key indicators, is mixed for two and is heading in the wrong direction for four, including sewage, marine litter and "nutrient" pollution from sources like agriculture and animal wastes that fertilize coastal zones.
This is triggering toxic algal blooms and a rising number of oxygen deficient 'dead zones,' it warns.
It also flags up fresh areas in need of urgent attention such as the declining flows in many of the world's rivers as a result of dams, over-abstraction and global warming; new streams of chemicals; the state of coastal and freshwater wetlands and sea-level rise linked with climate change.
It calls for improved monitoring and data collection on continents like Africa where the level of hard facts and figures on marine pollution remains fragmented and woefully low. —PTI

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

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Scientists say

New models of climate change in the Northeast show that by mid-century, summers in New England will resemble the summers now experienced in the South. 01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, October 5, 2006

BY PETER B. LORD
Journal Environment Writer region
will get
hotter
Sophisticated new models of climate change focused on the Northeast show that by the time children here grow up, their summers will be little different from summers now experienced in the Deep South, with weeks of 90-plus degree days.
If emissions of greenhouse gases are reduced, summers in Rhode Island will resemble those in Virginia by the end of the century, the scientists said. If not, they'll be more like summers in South Carolina.
Also in the coming decades, the scientists said, we can expect shorter, wetter winters and far more intense storms.
The projections were announced yesterday morning by scientists speaking in a telephone news conference from Cambridge, Mass.
Until now, global climate models have been unable to give such specific projections on a scale as small as New England. But scientists for the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment, a team of independent scientists, said they scaled down the global models and tested them against real weather data in recent decades. They said the results, if anything, were conservative.
The results confirm that changes are already well under way, said Cameron Wake, a research associate professor at the University of New Hampshire's Climate Change Research Center and co-lead author of the report. And he said some climate change will continue occurring no matter what society does now.
During the last 30 years, average winter temperatures have risen 4 degrees Fahrenheit, enough to make Boston winters seem more like those in Philadelphia, Wake said. There also are 15 to 20 fewer days with snow on the ground.
Summers are hotter, said Wake, but with more rain in fewer events as a result of more intense storms.
For the future, the scientists projected two scenarios -- continuing with the current rate of growth of greenhouse gas emission (.3 percent annually) or reducing energy use by 3 percent annually. The differences in results were dramatic.
For instance, Boston now averages 10 days over 90 degrees each summer, and one day over 100 degrees.
Even if New England reduces emissions, the number of days over 90 are expected to rise to 25 by mid-century. If nothing is done, the number would reach 40 days.
By the end of the century, the number of over 90-degree days will range between 30 and 60, depending on what people do to reduce pollution.
"If we stick to fossil fuel use the way we have, the Northeast will feel a lot like the South during the end of the century," said Katharine Hayhoe, a research associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and co-lead of the report.
She said the models make conservative projects and don't account for catastrophes speculated by some, such as the shutdown of global ocean currents that distribute heat, or a destabilization of the Greenland ice sheets that could cause a dramatic and rapid rise in sea level.
But they insisted improvements made now will lead to less fuel being thrown onto the fire of climate change.
"The choices we make today will determine what the Northeast will look like," Hayhoe said. "The future is in our hands."
To reduce climate change, the scientists did not propose dramatic actions. Rather, they recommended a replacement strategy: replacing energy-hogging cars, appliances and lightbulbs as they wear out with energy-efficient models.
If the Northeast states were a nation, it would be the seventh-largest producer of heat-trapping gases in the world, said William Moomaw, professor and director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at Tufts University.
Such gases come roughly one-third each from transportation, power production and buildings and industry, Moomaw said.
While national policies are critical, he said, the region could accomplish much on its own by moving forward with new building codes, tax policies and state property goals.
The scientists pointed out that most of New England has supported a Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce carbon pollution by 10 percent by 2010. (Rhode Island has not, because Governor Carcieri has concerns about the costs of many of the 52 initiatives in the plan. But the governor has supported more limited efforts, such as purchasing renewable energy for the State House and energy-efficient measures have been adopted in many state buildings.)
The region's attorneys general also have sued five of the country's largest power producers to force them to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming.
Critics have often complained that climate-change projections have been unreliable and alarmist.
But the scientists yesterday said their work has been peer reviewed by other scientists in one paper scheduled to be published soon, and another in a few months.
The biggest variables in the projections, they found, depended much more on what people do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions than how the climate will react to what's in the atmosphere.
By early next year, the scientists plan to publish new reports that translate their findings into impacts on fisheries, sea-level rise, public health, forests and aquaculture.

[Talitha]

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I believe that part the Lord's© Master plan is to rid the World of Non-Christians, and the first part of this plan is to allow the Slant-eyes to Nuke each other.

Nations confront N. Korea over nuke test
SEOUL, South Korea -
North Korea's neighbors scrambled Wednesday to forge a common front against Pyongyang's threatened nuclear test, with
South Korea warning of a regional atomic arms race that could upend the regional balance of power.

HERE

[SUV]

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And JESUS' return!....within the next 20-50 years! PRAISE!

Now Pastor, you know that I want to see Jesus just as much as the next Christian, but in the year He does return, He wouldn't dare do it until the Christmas Shopping Season is over - would He?

SUV

[Magikarp]

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Sorry to revive such an old thread, but could the end possible be nearer since all of this brouhaha has been happening?

[JennyD]

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Sorry to revive such an old thread, but could the end possible be nearer since all of this brouhaha has been happening?

No.

[JennyD]

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If you're intent on worrying, here's something to occupy your mind.

http://postcarboncities.net/

[Nobar King]

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It does sound really bad, though. Considering the Big Dry in Australia and the oncoming glacial inundation of the northern Ural area, one would be insane to not think that the hand of god had any influence here.

[yogurt]

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Aliens will attack like in war of the worlds then Jesus will curse them with disease and they will die, along with those sciencetologist buggers.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

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Aliens will attack like in war of the worlds then Jesus will curse them with disease and they will die, along with those sciencetologist buggers.

Has anyone ever praised you for your logic, use of research and real world assessments?.... No?... I thought not.

[SUV]

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What I love are the bumper stickers that proclaim: "In the event of RAPTURE this vehicle will be unmanned."

But: Will the Good Lord also permit the Cell Phone to be Raptured along with the driver?

Some of these drivers I've seen, particularly in Godly Behemoths, are always Chattering away so the Good News is that even if the vehicle keeps rolling down the road without a driver it could hardly be any worse of a menace.

The bad news is, of course, who would possibly want to enter even Heaven without our Cell Phone - and would the person then be directed to....the Other Place? Where I am Certain™ that Satan would permit the Cellular Phone

Look, there he is now - Ringing up Patrick Swayze!!!

[Daisy Mae Johnson]

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Except us True Christians we will be in HEAVEN by JESUS' right hand.

GLORY!!

[SUV]

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Sister Thumper! Not even the............Children?!!

[yogurt]

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Well only Landover children, True christian kids are going to hell.